Plant Berberis vulgaris (Berberidaceae) | Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases

Common Names

Barberry

How this plant is used

Medicinal

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List of plant chemicals.
Click on column headings to sort table by that column. *Unless otherwise noted all references are to (Duke, 1992)
Chemical Name	Activity Count	Plant Part	Low Parts Per Million	High Parts Per Million	Standard Deviation	Reference
BERBAMUNINE	0	Root	not available	not available	not available	Jim Duke's personal files.
BERBERINE	130	Bark	not available	45000.0	1.00	Jim Duke's personal files.
BERBERINE	130	Flower	not available	6600.0	not available	Jim Duke's personal files.
BERBERINE	130	Leaf	not available	3000.0	1.00	Jim Duke's personal files.
BERBERINE	130	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Jim Duke's personal files.
BERBERINE	130	Root	4000.0	64800.0	1.07	Duke, 1992 *
BERBERINE	130	Root Bark	25000.0	80000.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
BERBERINE	130	Stem	1600.0	28900.0	not available	Jim Duke's personal files.
BERBERINE	130	Stem Bark	20000.0	25000.0	1.00	Jim Duke's personal files.
BERBERRUBINE	1	Bark	not available	not available	not available	Jim Duke's personal files.
BERBERRUBINE	1	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Jim Duke's personal files.
BERBERRUBINE	1	Root	not available	not available	not available	Jim Duke's personal files.
BERBERUBINE	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Williamson, E. M. and Evans, F. J., Potter's New Cyclopaedia of Botanical Drugs and Preparations, Revised Ed., Saffron Walden, the C. W. Daniel Co., Ltd., Essex UK, 362 pp, 1988, reprint 1989.
BERCULCINE	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
BERLAMBINE	0	Root	not available	not available	not available	Jim Duke's personal files.
BERVULCINE	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
BETA-CAROTENE	53	Bark	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
BETA-CAROTENE	53	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Jim Duke's personal files.
BETA-CAROTENE	53	Root	not available	0.0	-0.44	Pedersen, M. 1987. Nutritional Herbology. Pederson Publishing. Bountiful, Utah. 377 pp.
BETA-XYLAN	0	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Jim Duke's personal files.

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List of plant activities.
Click on column headings to sort table by that column. *Unless otherwise noted all references are to (Duke, 1992)
Activity	Chemical Count	Reference
Sunscreen	4	Lazarova*, G., Kostova, I., Neychev, H. 1992. Photodynamic damage prevention by some hydroxycoumarins. Fitoterapia 64(2): 134-136, 1993.
Sweetener	3	Leung, A. Y. and Foster, S. 1995. Encyclopedia of Common Natural Ingredients 2nd Ed. John Wiley & Sons, New York. 649 pp.
Taenicide	1	Martindale's 28th
Teratologic	2	Duke, 1992 *
Testosteronigenic	1	Werbach, M. 1993. Healing with Food. Harper Collins, New York, 443 pp.
Thymoprotective	1	Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Tissue-Thromboplastin-Inhibitor	1	Duke, 1992 *
TNF-alpha-Inhibitor	3	Duke, 1992 *
TOPO-2-Inhibitor	1	Duke, 1992 *
Topoisomerase-I-Inhibitor	2	Santti, R., Makela, S., Strauss, L., Korman, J., Kostian, M. L. 1998. Phytoestrogens: Potential Endocrine Disruptors in Males. Toxicol Ind Health, 14: 223-237.
Topoisomerase-II-Inhibitor	6	Constantinou, A., Mehta, R., Runyan, C., Rao, K., Vaughan, A., Moon, R. 1995. Flavonoids as DNA Topoisomerase Antagonists and Poisons: Structure-Activity Relationships. J Natural Products, 58: 217-225.
Toxic	1	Neuwinger, H. D. 1996. African Ethnobotany - Poisons and Drugs. Chapman & Hall, New York. 941 pp.
Tranquilizer	2	Duke, 1992 *
Trichomonicide	2	Martindale's 29th
Triglycerigenic	1	Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Trypanocide	2	Duke, 1992 *
Tumorigenic	2	Jim Duke's personal files.
Tyrosinase-Inhibitor	2	Duke, 1992 *
Tyrosine-Kinase-Inhibitor	1	Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 6: 170.
Ubiquiot	2	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.